Ep9: Katrina Yaukey | Broadway Actress and Musician
Katrina Yaukey is an actor musician who has appeared on Broadway, Film and TV and toured internationally. She runs an accordion repair business in NYC and loves to talk about Volkswagens, pugs and plants.
15 Aug 202023min
Ep10: Hillel Fuld | Startup Advisor and Tech Columnist
Hillel Fuld has been named the 7th top tech blogger worldwide, Israel’s top marketer, and on Forbes, was dubbed “The Man Transforming Startup Nation to Scale up Nation.” He is a global speaker, tech blogger, startup marketer, and leading online influencer. Today, Hillel collaborates with companies such as Google, Oracle, and Microsoft to help early and later stage entrepreneurs take their local technology to a global scale.
15 Aug 202025min
Ep6: Oded Hermoni | Managing Partner at J-Ventures
J-Ventures is a community empowered VC fund based in Silicon Valley and backed by over 150 leading investors. Previously a Partner at Rhodium, and was a VP at Capital Point group (early stage traded investment firm). Founded a startup that was acquired by YellowPages group. He formed and led the largest Israeli Tech and VC organization (now called IATI) and was a founding member of ICON and INTRO. Before becoming a VC, Oded was an editor and journalist covering tech and economy at Haaretz/TheMarker/ Red Herring.
15 Aug 202024min
Ep8: Cliff Weitzman | Founder and CEO of Speechify
Cliff is an American Israeli entrepreneur, Founder of Speechify Text To Speech software - the 10th highest grossing productivity app on Apple's App Store, used to read more than a billion words every month. Cliff is one of the youngest people named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 list. He is a Dyslexia advocate, listens to 100 books a year, & has the first chapter of harry potter memorized. Cliff is one of the CEOs discussed in the book The Great CEO Within.
15 Aug 202019min
Ep2: Shuly Galili | Founding Partner of Upwest
Shuly is the co-founding Partner at UpWest, a Silicon Valley seed fund investing in startups at the Israel-US technology junction. UpWest portfolio crossed $1B in VC funding and includes companies such as SentinelOne, HoneyBook, Stampli, CyCognito, Airobotics and more.
15 Aug 202021min
Ep5: Izhar Shay | Israeli Knesset, former VC
Prior to joining the Israeli Parliament, Shay was a high-tech entrepreneur, CEO of start-up companies, member in boards of directors, mentor for entrepreneurs and a social activist. He wrote a popular weekly column at Globes for 11 years, authored two books, and founded Israel’s largest digital community for entrepreneurs (“Start-Up Stadium”) with about 45 thousand members. Previously, Shay was a Managing General Partner with Canaan Partners Israel and was a board member with promising start-up companies, some of which reached significant ‘exit’ events.
15 Aug 202023min
Ep4: Yasmin Lukatz | Executive Director of ICON
Yasmin Lukatz, MBA Stanford, Startup Investor and Philanthropist, is the Founder and Executive Director of ICON - Israel Collaboration network, helping Israeli entrepreneurs penetrate the US market by bridging Silicon Valley and Israel. ICON's members are VC Partners, Executives at Fortune 500 companies and Founders of rising-star startups. Yasmin only asks, is to pay it forward, and also pay it back by rallying the ICON community to support and mentor children in Israel's periphery. Yasmin is also a respected startup investor, starring in the new season of the Israeli TV version of Shark Tank.
15 Aug 202019min
Ep3: Alon Matas | Founder & President of BetterHelp
BetterHelp is the world’s largest counseling service. They connect people facing life's challenges with a counselor from their network of licensed, accredited, and board-certified therapists. Each month, over 2,000,000 counseling messages, chats, voice calls, and video sessions are facilitated through BetterHelp’s secure website and mobile app!
15 Aug 202020min
